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Hollywood loves a good adaptation. Warner Bros. is even making a Harry Potter television series on HBO more than a decade after the movies finished, for some ungodly reason (money). But what's it like living in Tinsel Town if you're a novelist who also works as a screenwriter? This is a question that Danzy Senna's new novel, Colored Television, explores in part.  At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Senna gave a hilarious breakdown on how Colored Television provides a spin on her experiences as a writer in LA.

"[Colored Television] is about being a writer in LA. I've been a writer here for 20 years, and writing novels, as [Jane, the protagonist of Colored Television] talks about, is how you sometimes feel like you're the Amish when you're talking with other people [in Los Angeles]," says Senna. "It's 'quaint' and 'interesting' that you're still writing for the page. And they say things like, 'Oh has any of your work been made into anything?' And you say, 'It's been made into a book!'" 

The audience immediately erupted into laughter at Senna's words, embodying that specific flavor of humor that is born out of recognition and pain. While the LA Times's Festival of Books always gets a huge turnout each year, there's no questioning which industry is king in this town. When you say you're a writer, people generally assume that means you write screenplays, whereas in my hometown of New York, most folks would make the logical assumption that you're writing the next Great American Novel.

But we've had enough stories about writers in New York (though who am I to put down a quota)! It's time we celebrate the literary heritage of Los Angeles, and all the painfully comedic situations that arise from it. 

Just like yourself, the Popverse staff spends a whole lot of time with our respective noses in respective books. It's why we've come up with stuff like:

• The hottest upcoming fiction
• Queer romance to add to your reading list
• A reading guide to Cassandar Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles

...and a whole lot more. Join our metaphorical library, won't you? There are no late fees and you can be as loud as you want, so long as the people you live with are OK with it.